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...Educational Testing Service (ETS), the Princeton, N.J., firm that the College Board pays to write SAT questions, put together a list of books to be avoided when picking passages. On the list were 40 or so titles often assigned in good English classes--novels such as Animal Farm, Catch-22 and Native Son. ETS had a solid psychometric rationale for shunning the books: reading-comprehension questions should measure a student's ability to analyze something new, not something already assigned in English class...
...course, his chosen field is not without its risks. Middlemen and dealers, who receive a vastly larger share of the profits from stolen art, are rarely prosecuted for their crimes. But the authorities occasionally like to make an example of the lowly looters, who are easier to catch. Last year Chinese courts meted out death penalties to at least four tomb raiders. "I know someone who was executed for looting a tomb," says Feng. "He made 580 yuan [$70]. Now, I hear the tricolor female statue he dug up was recently resold in New York for 150,000 yuan...
Eastern Europe is now playing catch-up. Poland has one of the world's fastest-growing cardboard-box industries. But the region in which box manufacturing is expanding most rapidly (20% over the past five years) is in Central and South America, says industry analyst Paul Bailin. Brazil, Costa Rica and others are building box factories to export avocados, coffee and other produce...
...were playing direct,” said Kerr. “I wanted to catch them off guard, and I think we did that...
...students who have reported calls this year said they were contacted between the hours of 5:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. The whisperer calls in the early hours of the day to catch the students off guard, according to Catalano...